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SIMON RATTLE is a brave conductor. Having done very little Brahms and Schumann, and perhaps even consciously avoided this area of German Romanticism, he has been touring a pair of programmes with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment devoted to, yes, Brahms and Schumann. And not just the Schumann Piano Concerto or a Brahms symphony: in the first of these South Bank concerts he explored some less than sure-fire pieces, but the results were always inspiring.

Of course, the two composers had enough musical and personal links — to the extent that Brahms was in unrequited love with Schumann’s